I’ll start calling her Duchess when she starts acting like one and performing duties on her own soil instead of, as the title of this article suggests, going on another vacation and burdening the taxpayers again and snubbin her royal duties at home. Their ‘vacation’ isn’t going to be cheap to the taxpayers of Canada nor the US and has no real purpose.

Get a role and be involved in the charities of the UK, then she deserves respect, not another PR campaign, which is what this is all about.

No one outside Britain will ever call her Duchess, for the simple reason that outside Britain nobody understands why someone married into a Royal Family is a Duchess and not a Princess like everywhere else. So it will remain Kate until she becomes Queen.

As a Dutch I’m also puzzled why Kate became Duchess (???) and not Princess. All 7 grandsons of Queen Juliana here married commoners who all became Princess and the same practice holds for all Royal Families accross Europa.

Most hilarious is that Kate as Dutchess is now the lowest in rank at any royal gathering. Even commoners married into obscure former Royal Families like those of Serbia, Greece or Bulgaria are ranked higher than Kate.